Steve Button

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I have 59 stories published in 2 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 98990 times and 29 of my stories have been cherry picked.
1 of my 105 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 1 vote

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Kafka's Algebra

By Steve Button on Thu, 08 Mar 2007

I imagine Kafka after the night-shift In the Workers' Accident Insurance Institution Slouching home through the cobbled streets, Haunted by numbers. So it was no surprise one winter’s eve
Autobiography
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A Nuclear Family

By Steve Button on Wed, 07 Mar 2007

There’s violence lurking in the breakfast things. Forced to feed in the company of strangers - no-one fits their mug-shots yet - sore bears kicked from slumber snarl
Autobiography
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Slapstick

By Steve Button on Wed, 07 Mar 2007

The men stood either side of each other, thick gloves clutching four corners of thin air. It seemed strange that nothing could be such a weighty matter,
Autobiography
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Reunion

By Steve Button on Wed, 07 Mar 2007

And even now, after so many years, so many coats of institutional whitewash, the corridors still smell of rage. The last thing I remember; running like hell on the last day, trailing
Autobiography
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The Fibber

By Steve Button on Wed, 07 Mar 2007

He told me how he lay awake at night to catch shooting stars on his tongue, and washed by waiting till it rained. How once he’d taught a hen to tell the truth, then faked the eggs
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Certificate U

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